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Topic: What launched from Vandenberg (Read 17262 times)

Does anyone know of any USAF ICBM test launches today? About 1800L PST in Vegas (~ 0200Z on 8 Nov 15), I could see what looked like a launch to include staging. It was about 1 hour after sunset here...was quite a site but can't find anything about any launches from the west coast.

I could see the staging (as in you saw what appeared to be MECO...possible Retros then staging). 2nd stage continued to burn until the light was dimmed out / no longer visible. I don't think it was a failure. It was pretty awesome though.

The test was part of a scheduled, on-going system evaluation test, said Cmdr. Ryan Perry with the Navy’s Third Fleet.

editA few other news outlets have given different stories (claiming it was launched from Edwards for example), but this is the only one I've seen that quoted a named military source, and it seems by far the most credible and consistent with the locations of reported sightings.